Currently waiting on the results of a coating of DOT 3 brake fluid (on the top cover); wish me luck! Click to expand... Definitely let us know your results in detail. I have n…

Currently waiting on the results of a coating of DOT 3 brake fluid (on the top cover); wish me luck!

Some of us here collect KIM-1s, btw. Learned how to program it in high school with the hex keypad in 6502 assembly. Still have it. Works great. It's fun to have a computer that's a…

Model 100's are awesome machines for what they're capable of. I have several here. A piece of lore behind the Model 100, btw, is that the Word Processing component of it is the l…

I have no idea what "dodgy C programmers" has to do with anything. Click to expand... With DMA, a dodgy C program can write into the data that something else is about to write …

The Mac II onwards were designed to use NuBus bus mastering for high speed data transfers. Both devices had to be on the NuBus, of course, and support bus mastering, at least as a …

Awesome! i loved those things. I used to have one. Try to find the floppy drive (and accompanying disk) that gives you 100KB floppy storage on a modern floppy. The floppy also ru…

As far as I know, the first Mac to actually have DMA (which the very first IBM PC had) was the IIfx and it was only used under A/UX. Click to expand... The Mac II onwards were …

1) External drive must supply termination power (the power supply in the Plus is too feeble to do the job, so the design team decided that the external box should supply term power…

Another factor is that Apple probably didn't want to re-engineer an older board when they were focusing on replacing the Plus with the more cost-effective Classic. The Classic was …

The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge. Click to expand... Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…

The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge. Click to expand... Oh man, that's truly a great find - I've sought out one of these bridges for years.…

The PB 170's HD is actually a 1 GB IDE HD connected to a IDE-SCSI bridge. TBH, I hadn't thought of that, haha. Thanks!

I don't want to have her dealing with configuring SheepShaver, if you know what I mean. Click to expand... Okay, I'll buy that :lol:

Pull the HD, stick it in a PC and reformat. Viruses = gone. Unless it takes a SCSI HD. Lowendmac was not to clear on this.

I don't want to have her dealing with configuring SheepShaver, if you know what I mean.

Would they run in SheepShaver, perhaps? It just seems unfortunate to have to run between two laptops ...

AFAIK OS X. She just needs to run apps that won't run in Classic. I gave her my PB 170 (the one I have now), but after a while, I decided that I really want it back, and she could…

Why, what's her Lombard running?

Thanks Byrd for the valuable advice! I didn't know about the possibility of the CPU card becoming unseated; I thought it would stay a tight fit. And I'm actually intending for the…

Great finds. See if you can get a G3 for the 1400 -- it makes it a totally different animal. Although my 1400+G3/333 still feels slower than my 300MHz blueberryBook, it still runs …

Chances are that PB170 has a poorly-seated CPU daughtercard; reseating it (or shimming it slightly to enable a better fit) usually gives it life. Either that, or pull the battery …

Thanks! I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with the 520c.

Not bad, best of luck getting the nonfunctional machines up!

You type PR#1 at the BAISC (]) prompt to output anything typed. As per paper they can use tractor feed or normal loose leaf depending on what mode you have it in.